St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-03-22

description to state time and place of service
~ 90 s9pposed age, and any other description
81 sald female that may be necessary for identi-
ncatlon together with the amount claimed to be
que ior Inc services of such animal. That GER
eneu COPY OF said description shall be sufficient
authority for the owner Of said lien his agent or
assigns, to enforce the same by taking possess
sion OF said offspring and to foreclose said lien
as provided by law for the foreclosure Of chattel
mortgages IN this state. Provided, however that
upon the payment OF said service fees or the full
satisfaction OF said lien, the owner thereof shall
me with Inc description before mentioned full
release OF said offspring with the clerk Of the
township where said female is owned.
DEC: z. This act shall take effect and be in
force from and after its passage
Approved March Sd, 1887
1O7.
AN ACT defining the force and effect of wills
heretofore admitted to record, and to limit the
time wlthln which the same may be Ques-
toned +
Be it enacted by the Legislature Of the State of
Minnesota:
SECTION l. That any will duly executed and
Which mas heretofore been actually admitted to
pIopate by any probate court within this state,
WheGher proper notice thereof had previously
peen given or not, and which will, or certified
copy thereof, has been Of record in the office of
the register OF deeds of the county where the
real estate thereby affected was at the time of
the making OF such record, or is situate for
period or not less than ten (1O) years prior to
the passage of this act, may be read in evidence
IN any court within this state, and shall have
u
the probate of such will had been given: and no
right title or estate in lands situate within this
state derived under such will shall be held in
valid or set aside by reason of any defect in such
notice, unless the action in which the validity
OF such title shall be called in question be COM
menced or the defense alleging its invalidity be
lnterposed within ten (l0) years after the
actual recording of such will as aforesaid:
Provided, that persons under disability by rea-
son OF being minors, insane persons, idiots per-
sons In captivity, or in any country with which
WI nh
was made, may commence such action or inter-
pose such defense at any time within ten l10l
years after the removal of such disability; pro-
Vlded, further, that such action shall be COM
menced with reasonable diligence in all cases.
SEC 2. That nothing herein contained shall
DE construed to apply to any action or proceed
lug now pending in which the validity of such
probate is involved.
SEC. g. This act shall take effect and be in
force from and after the first day of January. A.
Approved March Sd, 1887.
los.
AN ACT to amend section of chapter 10Y, Cen
eral Laws 1878, relating to the qualifications
of jurors.
Be 1t enacted by the Legislature of the State of
Minnesota:
SECTION L. That section four al of chapter
one hundred and seven 900 of the General
Laws of One thousand eight hundred and sew
enty-eight 1878 be- and the same is hereby
amended so as to read as follows:
Section a. The following persons are exempt
from service as grand Jurors
All United States officers; all Judges of courts
of record: commissioners OF public buildings :;
auditors and treasurer of state; state librarian:
clerks OF courts; registers of deeds; sheriffs and
their deputies: coroners; constables; attorneys
and counselors at law; ministers of the gospel !;
pleceptors and teachers of Incorporated acad-
emies: one teacher in each common school:
practIc1ng physicians and surgeons one miller
of each grist mill; enc ~ ferryman to each
licensed ferry; all acting telegraph operators ali
postmasters and deputy postmssters; all MEM
bers OF companies OF figemen organized accord
ing to law; all persons of more than sixty 900
years OF age; all persons not of sound mind or
discretion; persons subject to any bodily in
FIRMLY amounting to disability: all undertakers
and their assistants; all persons disqualified
from serving as grand jurors who nave been con-
Vlcted OF any infamous crime.
SEC. 2. This act shall take effect and be in
force from and after its passage.
Approved March 3d. 1887
I89
AN ACT to amend section nine (9) of chapter 81
Statutes OF 1878, relating to weights and
measures.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of
SECTION l. That section nine (9) of chapter
twenty-one CD Of the General Statutes of the
State OF Minnesota for the year one Thousand
eight hundred and seventy -eight 1S7Sl be and
the same is hereby amended SO as to read as fol-
lows
Whenever any wheat rye, Indian corn, oats, bar
ley potatoes, clover seed. buckwheat dried apples
ure shall be ascertained by weight as follows
Sixty (6O) pounds for bushel of wheat, clover
seed or potatoes: fifty-six 500 pounds for 4
bushei OF rye or Indian corn: thirty-two (32l
pounds for bushel of oats; forty-eight (4S)
pounds for bushel OF barley; forty-two az
pounds for bushel of buckwheat; and twenty
eight pounds US pounds for bushel of
dried apples or dried peaches; and any per-
son or persons demanding or taking or
receiving any greater number of pounds for a
bushel of either or any of the articles hereinbe-
fore mentioned shall be deemed guilty of a
misdemeanor, and shall be punished by fine OF
not less than five dollars ($5) nor more than one
county Jail for not more than ninety 800 days,
or by both such fine and Imprisonment
Sec. 2. This act shall take effect and be in
force from and after its passage,
Approved March 9TH, 1887. :. ~. 10 4 =
ITO.
AN ACT amending section one ID of chapter
twenty-siX (26) Of the General Statutes of
Minnesota of 1878. ,elatng to notaries public.
Be it enacted by the Legislature Of the State OF
Minnesota:
SECTION 1. That section one ~ Of chapter 26
of the General Statutes of 1873, for the State OF
Minnesota, be amended by inserting after the
word electors, in the middle of the third line
of said section one, the words,-"or any other
citizen of this state. over twenty-one years OF
age, that the governor may deem suitable"
SEC. =. This act shall take effect and be in
force from and after its passage.
Approved March 9TH, 1887.
AN ACT to amend subdivision nine (9) of sec
ton sixteen Q6) of chapter ten QO) of the
General Statutes 1873 relating to powers OF
electors at town meetings.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State oi
Minnesota:
SECTION 1. That subdivision nine 90 of Sec
tion sixteen (16) of chapter ten 1O) of the Gen
eral Statutes OF One thousand eight hundred and
seVenty-eight 1873 be amended so as to read
as follows: 10 vote TO raise such sums OF
money for the repairs and construction of roads
and bridges as they deem necessary, and to de-
termine the amount thereof to be assessed by
the supervisors as labor tax. and the amount
thereof to be assessed and collected as other
the support of the poor and for other necessary
town charges as they deem expedient Provided,
that they may, at their annual town meeting,
direct such an amount of the poll and road tax
of the town to be expended on the highways in
an adjoining town as they deem conducive to
the interests of the town; which labor and tax
shall be expended under the direction of the
supervisors of the town furnishing the same;
provided further, that where more than one en-
tire congressional township is included within
an organized town, the poll and road tax raised
within the limits of each of such congressional
townships shall be expended within such con-
gressional township. unless raised to be ex-
pended outside Of such organized town in an
adjoining town.
SEC. 2. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent
with this act are hereby repealed.
SEC. 3. This act shall take effect and be il,
force from and after its passage.
Approved March 9TH. 1887.
liz.
AN ACT with reference to the change of names
of persons.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of
of Minnesota:
SECTION 1. All applications to the district
court for change of name shall contain de-
scripJion of all lands in this state which the ap-
plicant shall, at the time the application is
made, own, have lien upon or an interest in.
SEC. 2. Such applicant shall make proof be-
fore the court of his ownership of, lien upon,
and interest in such land, and the order of the
rto,o, MIN, el,a